This is an analysis of the poem The Jolly Beggar I that begins with:
‘THER is a wife in yone toun-end, an she has dothers three,
An I wad be a beager for ony of a’ the three.’...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaaccaadXXbaaaaXaeebbXda XdbbXXXXXbffXgbbhhXgaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111111101 11100101100001 110101101010001 11010011111011 11110101100111 1111010111111 1011111111 11111110111111 110100111011 111101010111 101110010010 110111101110 11000101100111 100101011110 1111011111 10010101101101 11110111111 110101110011 1101010111110 11111111111 1110110011001 1111001111111110101 11110101010111 110010101111 0101100111001 10100111101010 0101111011111 0101110101 1111001011101010 110001100111 10111111110111 0101010101100111 111011110101 01101010110111 111110110111 1110111111101 111011011011 1111111001101010 1110101011110110 11011101110101 1111110010 111001110101 110001110101 1101101111111 11110101110100 11101110011 11101100110100 11010010110101 11110101010101 11110110111111 1111110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2729
- Average number of words per stanza: 584
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, ye, me, ha, to, some, in, she, o, tuke, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, i, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines three is repeated).
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